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by coaltrout
Wed Jan 17, 2024 7:11 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: PB Wild brown
Replies: 1
Views: 1341

PB Wild brown

Unrelated to my last post. I didnt get around to exploring more of those two creeks yet. https://i.postimg.cc/QB2jvS55/image.png https://i.postimg.cc/6ybqYrHV/image.png Assuming this is wild because this is one of the State's Wild Brown Trout Enhancement streams, + I never happen to find any rainbow...
by coaltrout
Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:39 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Wild trout
Replies: 3
Views: 6976

Re: Wild trout

I like the colors on that wild bow. Is the stream not known to have them and you happened to find one? How big was the brown? Did you pull any drag? Same, i really like the bows in this creek. There's an impoundment downstream of it, it's cut off from all the lower watershed. I cant find online whe...
by coaltrout
Sat Jan 06, 2024 5:37 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Wild trout
Replies: 3
Views: 6976

Re: Wild trout

I hit a different creek this morning around noon before the snow, got one of the nicest browns Ive ever caught out of this area.
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Usually i just find dinks half this size
by coaltrout
Tue Jan 02, 2024 9:48 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Wild trout
Replies: 3
Views: 6976

Wild trout

I started exploring again in NJ for wild trout. So far found a new wild 'bow creek which is cool. https://i.postimg.cc/SN0YtgSg/1228231243d2.jpg I also fished downstream of a well known brookie stream around my area. I would fish the park normally but tried exploring further down in the system, nota...
by coaltrout
Fri Dec 01, 2023 5:25 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: she's going down for the count
Replies: 14
Views: 54822

Re: she's going down for the count

thanks, yea im not sure if they cared too much about rehabilitation with this one, more so just wanted the dam down before it came down itself by accident?
by coaltrout
Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:07 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: she's going down for the count
Replies: 14
Views: 54822

Re: she's going down for the count

I've been highly critical of this dam removal for the simple reason that the stated goal for the team was to provide fish passage for anadromous fish. So why zero fish habitat restoration and only dam removal and bank sloping? Too many bad engineers with no background in fisheries or fish habitat. ...
by coaltrout
Thu Nov 30, 2023 10:12 am
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: she's going down for the count
Replies: 14
Views: 54822

Re: she's going down for the count

great to see after the columbia lake dam came down, curious if some Big D trout will take more residence in the stream now.
by coaltrout
Mon Jul 24, 2023 8:19 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: awesome eats rite here !!!!
Replies: 6
Views: 15610

Re: awesome eats rite here !!!!

while camping with my group at Salmon River i tried Steelhead jerky before, lovely taste. I should try the salmon one year, likely the more silver ones
by coaltrout
Fri Jul 14, 2023 10:17 am
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Night fishing?
Replies: 5
Views: 11845

Night fishing?

Ive night fished before for other species like striped bass, hybrids, walleye, etc. This is usually from boat or from a lighted area in a park, not too much walking around the woods or wading. Ive yet to try night fishing for trout. Usually when i trout fish i prefer daylight, this is usually during...
by coaltrout
Sat Jun 24, 2023 6:26 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Paulinskill by Columbia WMA
Replies: 4
Views: 8252

Re: Paulinskill by Columbia WMA

The WMA access right off 46 is back open now, it was closed for a while. I wanted to fish it in the spring after a good rain but got caught up in other fishings!
by coaltrout
Fri Jun 23, 2023 10:10 am
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Paulinskill by Columbia WMA
Replies: 4
Views: 8252

Paulinskill by Columbia WMA

Columbia Lake is no more with the dam down, and the Paulinskill runs through free to the delaware now.
I fished this part of the WMA below where the dam was this winter along with a friend and we only got 1 small trout.

Has anyone fished this recently, catching shad? trout? bass?
by coaltrout
Fri Jun 23, 2023 10:05 am
Forum: Out of State Trout Fishing
Topic: Upper Brodhead Creek PA
Replies: 5
Views: 10226

Re: Upper Brodhead Creek PA

supposedly big stripers in brodhead by the delaware confluence and the gorge? Maybe a spring thing when the shad also run. I dont happen to be fishing PA around this time though. In the late fall or mid winter, Ive fished by paradise creek before, there's a public park just downstream of it. Small w...
by coaltrout
Mon May 22, 2023 2:32 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: never caught a trout so low on the main stem of raritan
Replies: 20
Views: 72860

Re: never caught a trout so low on the main stem of raritan

wow bound brook. i believe the last stocking area is nevius street in raritan. or maybe the route 206 bridge? i know fish swim and move around or get pushed downstream during floods. but just seems far to me. i could be wrong though. "seems far to me" good point. The thing with the raritan too is t...
by coaltrout
Mon May 22, 2023 1:33 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: never caught a trout so low on the main stem of raritan
Replies: 20
Views: 72860

Re: never caught a trout so low on the main stem of raritan

ive caught some down by bound brook before, but more by manville. Try that run some more especially after a big ran after fall stocking and you should get some more nice ones.
IDK why but they love swimming down, and it raises the question of just how long those fish have been around for.
by coaltrout
Mon Mar 07, 2022 11:32 am
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: What river did I hit today ?
Replies: 6
Views: 4667

Re: What river did I hit today ?

Idk but great work collecting beefy 'bows
cappy wrote:
Mon Mar 07, 2022 10:05 am
Looks like the - mukabigfpeqskill
Not to be confused with the Sorth Branch of the Passaritan River :mrgreen:
by coaltrout
Mon Feb 14, 2022 9:54 am
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Has anyone been out for trout
Replies: 37
Views: 1089497

Re: Has anyone been out for trout

Saturday was great for trout in PA, hoping ice season comes to a close soon
by coaltrout
Mon Jan 03, 2022 5:20 pm
Forum: Other Fishing
Topic: Northern Snakeheads
Replies: 7
Views: 12059

Re: Northern Snakeheads

I targeted them in deep south jersey, if i ever found one anywhere i normally fish I would kill them. But the times i went out to specifically target the species; I had no intention in killing them. This was in sloppy overgrown swamp water. We were catching dink young bass in the mix. Killing any in...
by coaltrout
Sat Dec 11, 2021 10:39 am
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: S branch/main stem 12/2/21:
Replies: 10
Views: 10061

Re: S branch/main stem 12/2/21:

I need to partner with bird watchers and do some sort of "fish watching" and set up sights on one of the dams. Likely they are going down during high water events and might be hard to see. It would be like a split second of them flopping around exposed out of the water i figure. It's not as clear as...
by coaltrout
Sat Dec 04, 2021 10:07 pm
Forum: Out of State Trout Fishing
Topic: Diseased PA Brookie
Replies: 4
Views: 5560

Re: Diseased PA Brookie

I found a brown trout next week with much worse looking disease-markings, folks from PA boat and fish responded back, was seen by someone at least. not sure where they will do with it.
by coaltrout
Fri Nov 26, 2021 9:38 pm
Forum: New Jersey Trout Fishing
Topic: Main stem Raritan river 11/25/2021:
Replies: 4
Views: 5460

Re: Main stem Raritan river 11/25/2021:

did you place the dynamite under the headgates dam yet? :mrgreen: nice trouts